Word: streaks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When there is booing the place to find the yellow streak is in the booer. If he realized what his jeer betrayed, he would try to conceal his cowardice by silence. --Boston Evening Globe...
...Princeton on May 21. Goode allowed but four hits while his team-mates collected eleven. The Japanese nine of Waseda University was barely nosed out in the tenth inning, 6-5, in an exciting game the following Wednesday. Owen scored the winning run by close base running. The winning streak was extended to include the second Princeton game, the score being 4-2, in the most exciting and creditable game of the year...
...Game Winning Streak...
...rich vein of victory, however, was immediately followed by a losing streak. Penn State piled up six runs in the ninth, thereby breaking the 3-3 tie that Yale had been able to maintain, chiefly through the brilliant fielding of Aldrich and Hickey, and winning 9-3. The following game, on May 14, was also a defeat, the second administered to Yale by Holy Cross. Tunney was again effective against the Blue, allowing them only two hits, both by Crane. Some snappy work on the bases, however, gained Yale two runs, while a corresponding sleepiness on the part...
...pitching the feature of the Blue play; Syracuse was out-smashed 13-6 in a slugging match; and Brown was nosed out last Wednesday 5-4 by ninth and tenth inning rallies, Aldrich bringing across the winning run in the extra session. Last Saturday, however, the Blue winning streak snapped. The Princeton Tigers recovered from the wounds administered by the University and Yale, and strengthened by playing on their home ground, uncovered the bunting game, and thus catching the Elis off their guard and giving them a 4-2 defeat...